From Knight of the Garter to Knight of Norway:
the Stanley-Wharton-Harding Line of Wirral

1. Sir William Stanley (1319-1398) of Storeton, Master Forester of Wirral, Married Alice Massey
2. Sir John de Stanley (1350-1413) of Storeton, Knight of the Garter, Lord of the Isle of Man, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Possible patron of the Sir Gawain & Green Knight poet. Married Isabel of Lathom
3. Sir John de Stanley (1386-1437) of Lathom, Knight of the Garter, Lord of Isle of Man, Lord of Lathom and Knowsley, Sheriff of Anglesey, Justice of Chester. Married Isabel, daughter of Sir John Haryngton
4. Sir Thomas Stanley(1405/6-1458/59) of Lathom, Knight of the Garter, Lord of Isle of Man, Lord of Lathom & Knowsley, 1^st Lord Stanley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, married Joan Goushill
5. Sir Thomas Stanley (1435-1504) Knight of the Garter, 2^nd Lord Stanley, 1^st Earl of Derby, Sovereign of the Isle of Man, married Eleanor Neville
6. James Stanley (1471-1514/15) Bishop of Ely
7. Thomas Stanley (<1493-1556) of Winwick, Lancs, and brother of John Stanley of Sutton Bonington
8. Richard Stanley (1515-1585) of Ashton in Makerfield, married Barbara
9. Henry Stanley (1544-1599) of Storeton, married Ellen Lystor
10. Thomas Stanley (1590-1638) of Storeton, married Jane Owen
11. Thomas Stanley (1632-1694) of Storeton, married Ellena Millington
12. Thomas Stanley of Storeton (1664-1711) married Mary Ainsworth
13. Johannes (John) Stanley (1701-1757) of Liscard and Landican, married Ellen Godwin (Goodwin) of Saughall Massie
14. Ellen Stanley (1733-1814) of Landican married Johannes (John) Wharton (1739-1804) of Bidston
15. Thomas Wharton (1758-1833) of Bidston* married Abigail Williamson
16. Henry Wharton (1791-1847) of Bidston married Sophia Peeling
17. George Wharton (1829-1859) of Bidston, married Ellen Dobell
18. John Wharton (1852-1884) of Oxton, married Lavinia Fletcher
19. George Stanley Wharton (1875-1963) Station Master of Lingham/Moreton, married Harriet Anson
20. Arthur Percival Wharton (1911-2005) of Lingham/Moreton, married Charlotte Alice Goodwin
21. Irene Joan Wharton (b1933) of Lingham/Moreton, married William Ernest Harding
22. Stephen Ernest Harding (b1955) of Wallasey, Ridder Foerste (Norway) married Anne Richardson of Leicester

*Thomas Wharton, son of Ellen Stanley, married his 1^st cousin Elizabeth Stanley but remarried Abigail (Henrys mother) after Elizabeths death.

Links:

In the footsteps of the Vikings. Wirral News, 29^th November 2006, front page (and page 2). Article by Kevin Core and the visit of Stephen Harding to Storeton Hall.

Who wrote poem? Wirral News, 3^rd January, 2007. Article by Kevin Core about the Sir Gawain and the Green Knight poem and its link with Wirral, Storeton, Sir John Stanley and the Vikings. Web link

Descendant of the Stanley Family upset by Plans to develop Luxury Homes at Storeton Hall. Wirral Globe article. 8^th June 2017 by Lauren Jones

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Listen to this BBC Radio4 broadcast of 21^st December 2006 of a new translation of the famous poem by Simon Armitage, narrated by Ian McKellen.

Wirral and West Lancashire Viking Page.